Favorite Ultimate Black Magic

[Northcrest]

I was just wondering what is your favorite Ultimate Black Magic. I like Scathe because it looks like a giant beam that follows where ever the enemy goes. And if you get every reduce mp cost license it really dosen't cost that much to cast.

[Goldenboko]

Ultima ftw.

[Forsaken Lover]

Kuja's Ultima was the coolest.

But for playable character black magic, FF8'S Ultima looked cool too.

[Lawr]

You forgot Ardor which is 1000x times better than Scathe, I refuse to contribute unless it's added..

[Jimsour]

Any that make it worthwhile to use. Mainly the Ancient Magic in FF11 because they do damage that no standard melee can match without weaponskills. They also take an arselong time to cast.

[Slothy]

FFVI Ultima. It doesn't need any fancy 3D effects to look cool, and it pretty much slaughters everything in the game. Ultima always seemed to be weaker in the games after FFVI (fine by me since it was incredibly broken in that game), but that takes away from how impressive it is in any game other than VI.

[scrumpleberry]

Ultima will always win for me. Also, I thought the FFXII and FFIX ones were like "...what the heck is this spell? What is it? Where does it come from?"

[Lawr]

Scathe and Ardor both mean the same thing...

[Bolivar]

It doesn't need any fancy 3D effects to look cool

dear lord.... :rolleyes2

my votes w/ ultima, hits everyone, can't complain. although meteo was cool in IV, but if you want to go for story purposes, too, not just gameplay, FFVII's should be "Meteor" as it was called "Ultimate Destruction Magic"

[Vermachtnis]

FFii Ultima, even though it was really, really, really weak (Even at LV20). But they locked it away for reason right?

I agree with Vivi22, Ultima in VI is broken and that's why it wins.

[PuPu]

Ultima fanboys. :rolleyes2 Only Kuja's Ultima doesn't suck like the others.

Seriously, hundreds of meteors, or even one HUGE meteor like Doomsday looks cooler than one stupid explosion. Not to mention probably causing more damage as well.

Meteor/Doomsday for the win.

[Ashley Schovitz]

Vivi's Armageddon

[Ace14]

Its all about Doomsday!

[beema]

Ultima, but I don't think it was considered Black magic in VI, was it? I thought it was by itself.

[Slothy]

Ultima, but I don't think it was considered Black magic in VI, was it? I thought it was by itself.

It was black magic.

[Wolf Kanno]

FFIV's W. Meteo FTW!


if you want to go for story purposes, too, not just gameplay, FFVII's should be "Meteor" as it was called "Ultimate Destruction Magic"

A spell that takes a week to destroy everything is not too impressive. Hell even in Majora's Mask it only took 3 days for the moon to collide with the planet;)

[Dan_Da_Man]

personally being a ff7 fan , i like the old sch bolt 3 and demi stuff love it , also i wouldn't class this as black magic but clouds meteor rain limit break is so kwl reminds me of meteor magic but it luks so cooler!
But it neva beats the lengendery "omdislash" - ff8 tried to take the omdislash move and make it more complex with lionheart but it still does not compare to the coolness of "omdislash" and i think the lionheart finisher is a little over the top and takes 2 long.

p.s check out my thread on my special gambit set - up for ff12 called easy lv ups for auto leveling

thanks guys;):bow:

[Twilight Edge]

Doomsday ftw.

--Aegis.

[trackalete]

why id Demi not in there? Demi was absolutly amazing in all the games it appeared in...

[Dan_Da_Man]

my point proven wel said m8 demi owns;)

[BG-57]

Ultima, but mainly in FFVI. I agree with Vivi22 that it seems underpowered in later games.

BTW, if there's other magic that's stronger than Ultima in a particular game, isn't it self-defeating to call it Ultima? Shouldn't it be called Penultima instead?

[black orb]

>>> HADOKEN!.

[Dynast-Kid]

Flare! But it sucked in FFXII...

Hmmm...Shouldn't Osmose/Aspir/Syphon be up there? It could be considered an ultimate spell 'cause it drains MP, leaving your opponent with no magic to cast spells....

[Hazzard]

...ultima...doesn't it just scream "Ultimate"?!

[BG-57]

Hmmm...Shouldn't Osmose/Aspir/Syphon be up there? It could be considered an ultimate spell 'cause it drains MP, leaving your opponent with no magic to cast spells....

Draining MP is rarely the best way to defeat a boss. Although it worked wonders with the Magicmaster in FFVI. Once his MP was down to zero, he'd try to cast and poof, he was gone!

But that approach took a lot longer than slamming him with Ultima and relying on auto-life spells to revive the party after the inevitable Ultima retaliation.

[Slothy]

>>> HADOKEN!.

Can I change my answer?

Also, Osmose is rarely black magic. The only time it was that comes to mind right now is FFIV, but only since they had no devisions other than White and Black. Unless I'm forgetting an example, I'm pretty sure it fell under support magic of some kind from FFVI on (I can't remember what it was in FFV at the moment).

[Obsidian]

When replaying FFVI, I will sometimes intentionally not use Ultima in order to make the end parts of the game more challenging. I can't say that for any other spell in any other FF. :)

So yeah, FFVI Ultima.

[Meat Puppet]

I just gotta go with Flare, for some reason.

[Zeromus_X]

Meteo will always be my favorite, with Ultima at a close second. It just seems a bit more realistic, that the ability to summon meteorites from out of space would show the ultimate mastery over destructive magic.

[Goldenboko]

>>> HADOKEN!.

Can I change my answer?

Also, Osmose is rarely black magic. The only time it was that comes to mind right now is FFIV, but only since they had no devisions other than White and Black. Unless I'm forgetting an example, I'm pretty sure it fell under support magic of some kind from FFVI on (I can't remember what it was in FFV at the moment).
It was Black Magic in FFX

[Twilight Edge]

>>> HADOKEN!.

Can I change my answer?

Also, Osmose is rarely black magic. The only time it was that comes to mind right now is FFIV, but only since they had no devisions other than White and Black. Unless I'm forgetting an example, I'm pretty sure it fell under support magic of some kind from FFVI on (I can't remember what it was in FFV at the moment).
It was Black Magic in FFX

And FFIX as well.

--Aegis.

[The Unknown Guru]

Doomsday all the way. Do 9999 to all your enemies and heal you to full health (with shadow absorbing equipment)? Yes please.

[Takara]

FFVI's Merton/Meltdown. PWN.

[cloud21zidane16]

Doomsday all the way. Do 9999 to all your enemies and heal you to full health (with shadow absorbing equipment)? Yes please.

and double with trance;)

[Jessweeee♪]

I voted Ultima, 'cuz it's purdy. I think FFVIII's Apocalypse should be considered n.n

...though I wouldn't have voted it anyway :P

[Masamunemaster]

I would vote doomsday and I never knew I could heal with it, that would have made a lot easier

[Rengori]

If I had gotten Doomsday I would have voted for that, but Meteor is cool too. I never got the fascination with ultima, it's pretty much just a colored flash.

[Heath]

Thinking about it, FFVII's Ultima looks exactly how I imagined the killing curse from Harry Potter would look.

I love using meteor spells though. Nothing spells awesome like hundreds of meteors smashing your opponents.